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Verse 1
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In the beautiful hills,
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in the midst of Rome county,
That's where I have lived for
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many long years,
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That's where my heart has
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tended most ever,
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That's where the first step
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of misfortune I made,
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For nearly five years I courted
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Amanda Gilbraith was
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then called my wife
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Her three brothers stabbed me
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for some unknown reason
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Just three months later,
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I'd taken Tom's life
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For thirty -five years,
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this whole world I rambled
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I traveled all England,
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to France and to Spain
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And I thought of my home,
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way back in Rome County
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And I boarded a steamer
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I was captured and tried
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in the village of Old Kingston
Not a man in the county
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would speak one fine word
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with a verdict next morning
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My lifetime in prison
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was the word that I heard
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When the train left the shed,
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was about el even -thirty
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The chains they rattled,
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an d the handcuffs were tight
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When young Diddy Gleeson
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Takin' hold of the throttle
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Oh, hundred and thirty
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was soon out of sight
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Men went to the mine
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In the fields of Big Brushy
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Some went to that grave, I'm sorry to say
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But I'm going to the pen
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Station there in Old Nashville
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Just to labor and worry
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The rest of my day
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In the scorching hot sun
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On the foundry I'm toilin'
Yes, toilin' and worryin'
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My life all the way
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They'll measure my grave
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on the bank of old Tumala
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Just as soon as I've finished
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the rest of my days
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See, Pollard was great,
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but Bora was better
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That's good and that's better all over,
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Boys, when you write home
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from the prison in Nashville
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Place a verse of this song
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No matter what happens
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to me in Rome County
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No matter how long my sentence may be
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I love my old home,
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way back in Rose County,
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for it's a way up in the East Tennessee.
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